Sorry, I had to amend your bad grammar. When you post on the internet, it is forever. Please take care in future. And, finally, to outrage you, it's not your language. (But the grammar was bad by your own rules..)
( Expect to lose karma, it's worth it to make a point, ) #StupidOverThere
Except that your numbers are heavily massaged for propaganda purposes and dont (sic) actually resemble reality.
What kind of country has a population so stupid they can't keep tabs on inflation via the cost of a basket of goods?
I like the way you glid over the inflation argument, the strongest argument (for me) in your parent post. You could maybe make it in politics. But not in Europe.
In what way do you have to fight WMP? You can set the default player by file type (and all video players give you the option to make their program the default). Plus you can go into "Turn Windows features on or off" and remove Windows Media Player completely in standard Windows 7.
Well, I'm not the person you are replying to, but I installed the N version of Windows 7, and everything was cool and froody. I installed my favourite mp3 player, foobar2000, and all was well. Then I needed to get a Windows Performance Index for my PC, and for that I needed to install WMP. And, crazily, I lost the context menus in Explorer for "Play in foobar2000" and "Enqueue in foobar2000." After trying many registry tweaks I researched, I uninstalled WMP and got my menus back. I suspect that's the kind of fighting that the person you are replying to experienced.
I think I only got the full Aero UI experience once I'd installed WMP and calculated my WPI, but I might be wrong on that front.
C#/Java, import runtime library (dll or jar) of rich libraries, write new classes (using nice readable names), usually one file per class (but in c# I can combine them into 1 file), compile run.
c++, include header files, write new classes (using hideously complicated naming and syntax), write duplicate definition in own header files, add libraries (already included) to linking process, compile, run.
One way is smooth and logical, the other is barbaric, and a top priority of the standards committee to get rid of, just hasn't happened yet. If its so ok, why have they said it's got to go?
It's not clear to me, still. Please give concrete examples, from your point of view, showing the difference between the two? And please avoid emotive terms like "barbaric" That's adding nothing.
Nothing needs to be complicated about naming in C++, in fact it's easier than system.io.println, IMO. I am free to give my class and methods meaningful name - what's your point here? Better than giving everything a com.myco (well, actually we were taken over, so _myoldco_ - we don't want to break anything).system.subsytem prefix.
In Java *or* in C++, if you change a class interface, the dependencies need to be rebuilt. Most Java IDEs will do that on-the-fly, and you might have to invoke another tool (E.g. make) to build, especially if you are doing multi-platform development. But the building happens no matter what. If your C++ build tool does too much work when you make a change, then that effort can probably be avoided.
Please don't mix up Windows DLLS with shared objects in other systems, mentioning them is nothing to do with C++ per se.
Yeah, I know C++11, I've looked at it quite a bit, and it is better than it was, but as long as it needs header files, I don't put it into a modern language category.
This is the most bizarre statement I've seen here today. Can you explain your reasoning?
Yes, was. In the olden days your RF receiver pumped out loads of modulated RF dependent on input frequencies so it was distinctly possible. Now with EU regulations governing emissions on all electronics you'd be lucky to even detect if it was switched on from more than a couple of metres away. Your ring main kicks out more than a LCD TV.
I disagree with this, I just bought a new LCD TV (and a UK TV Licence too!) and the TV sends out enough RF to interfere with my DAB radio in the same room. (I know, *now*, that DAB is cr*p and would never suggest anyone buy a DAB radio after experiencing it myself, but there is undoubtedly RF.). My laptop (old, but still with FCC and CE marks on the underside) is even worse in terms of interference to DAB. And I do suspect that Tempest technology could read what's on my screen, were "they" on the other side of the wall.
However, I doubt that there are detector vans still operating. Given the multitude of RF sources these days, it would be almost impossible to say "You're watching BBC1 on a TV in the back bedroom." Perhaps it could be used as a "foot in the door" tactic.
No, (s)he pointed out that many people had the same experience as portrayed in the comedy.
So the comedy was an illustration or not? You say I got it wrong, but the bottom line is that you agree with me...
I never said he used the Comedy to deduce of imply anything, just as an illustration.
Err, yes, you got it wrong, IMO. I think that the reference to the comedy was not stupid. I don't think you can deduce from what I say whether I agree with you or not on the bigger issue, but you were wrong to say slim is "stupid" for making the post.
Well, maybe MyCo buys this, but AFAIK this is part of a modern Windows infrastructure and all provided by MS. Works seamlessly on XP, so it's not bleeding edge tech. If it's reachable by network, then XP in a domain environment offers an offline ability. I'm not saying the merge is painless, but at least conflicts are flagged, which is more than the current situation the OP suffers.
The real problem is that human life in China is not valued.
This is true, the company I am working with were looking at data centers in mainland China, and asking about the fire supression system, in particular how long people had to get out once the alarm goes off. The answer was "In the Western world, you value human life over data, here we value data over human life."
Go to somewhere like Luxembourg, or the areas of France and Belgium near there, where they totally love the US army for what they did. They name streets after famous Americans, there are memorials to the armed forces in many towns and villages. The perception there is that the US liberated them. Visiting veterans from the US are treated with real respect by the locals when they come over to visit (which happens frequently).
I'm not saying I have an opinion either way, because I haven't studied the history, but I have to tell it like it is. I've seen it with my own eyes.
Another vote for Iain M. Banks, and, in fact for some of his straight work as plain Iain Banks. The Wasp Factory, for example, will leave you feeling very uncomfortable.
The Culture series is very good, it's the source of one of my favourite quotes: "Money implies poverty." And there's a Wikipedia page on it!
I agree, I dug them out of the attic last month and will re-read. Partly for the sheer joy of them, they were at one point my favourite books, and partly to see what age they're suitable for - sex, bad language, etc.
But read them in the order they were written, i.e. the Saga of Pliocene Exile first.
these are books so difficult (and leaden) most people never finish them. they aren't written for children at all. the deeper philosophy and psychology is something no 12 year old could appreciate, and also the references to Wagner and Conrad are completely beyond a child.
I read this in secondary school, so I'd have been about 15 at the time. There were a bunch of us who all read them all, and we had no problems with the language. Not sure we got the philosophy you hint at, but I'm not going back to read them again, they didn't make that much impact upon me. I do remember that the middle book of the second chronicles was pretty pointless - they sail away, then come back, not much happens in terms of the big picture.
Also, I'd like to put in a good word for James Tiptree, Jr. (real name: Alice Sheldon, nee Bradley).
And I second that. Her collection of short stories, 10,000 Light Years from Home, is one of the few books I'd keep if I had to downsize my collection. Great variety of ideas in that one volume.
With all of this talk about bitcoins, which are based on cryptography, why aren't there more Slashdotters asking why in the hell those bitcoins weren't stored in an encrypted format?
It doesn't matter who hosts your VPS if you apply some common sense to your valuable data.
Well, it comes down to this. These people were renting a slice of server to mine bitcoins. That meant that any coins that were created had to be put somewhere. And, that somewhere had to be online at the time the coins were discovered. It would be seriously inconvenient if the mining process paused because it had a block of coins, but couldn't store them - at risk from power failure, for example. Imagine getting an SMS at 03:34 asking you to log on to make the wallet available- and realising you'd missed the first SMS, and your process had lost eight hours of processing time. Or realising that the server had had a power outage, and the coins were lost forever because they weren't stored before the power went down.
So, as reported, most people had a short-term "wallet" that was online, and they withdrew mined coins periodically. Some of the questions in the forums have been around why such large balances built up. I guess complacency and lack of rigour. But if your process needs access to an encrypted file, you either give it the key to (1) decrypt it ([i]hard-coded key in source, [ii]passed in key on command-line, or [iii] pass in key via environment), or (2) you leave the file online. Personally, I'd probably go for 1.i, but not leave the source on the mining machine, as 1.ii and 1.iii are vulnerable if the mining machine is compromised. But (2), if you trust yourself to empty the live file regularly, does seem nice and easy.
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Sorry, I had to amend your bad grammar. When you post on the internet, it is forever. Please take care in future. And, finally, to outrage you, it's not your language. (But the grammar was bad by your own rules..)
( Expect to lose karma, it's worth it to make a point, ) #StupidOverThere
Except that your numbers are heavily massaged for propaganda purposes and dont (sic) actually resemble reality.
What kind of country has a population so stupid they can't keep tabs on inflation via the cost of a basket of goods?
I like the way you glid over the inflation argument, the strongest argument (for me) in your parent post. You could maybe make it in politics. But not in Europe.
The head of Saudi Arabia's religious police has warned citizens against using Twitter, which is rising in popularity among Saudis.
Sheikh Abdul Latif Abdul Aziz al-Sheikh said anyone using social media sites - and especially Twitter - "has lost this world and his afterlife".
Twitter was the platform for those who did not have any platform, he said.
BBC News Middle East
In what way do you have to fight WMP? You can set the default player by file type (and all video players give you the option to make their program the default). Plus you can go into "Turn Windows features on or off" and remove Windows Media Player completely in standard Windows 7.
Well, I'm not the person you are replying to, but I installed the N version of Windows 7, and everything was cool and froody. I installed my favourite mp3 player, foobar2000, and all was well. Then I needed to get a Windows Performance Index for my PC, and for that I needed to install WMP. And, crazily, I lost the context menus in Explorer for "Play in foobar2000" and "Enqueue in foobar2000." After trying many registry tweaks I researched, I uninstalled WMP and got my menus back. I suspect that's the kind of fighting that the person you are replying to experienced.
I think I only got the full Aero UI experience once I'd installed WMP and calculated my WPI, but I might be wrong on that front.
P.S.=> Jeremiah Cornelius is a KNOWN troll -> http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=2238996&cid=36457426
This is lame. I think JC is one of the better contributors. And I'm not afraid to put my name to this, Mr Coward.
(I'll be taking a note of my haters at this point in time, and seeing who adds me, to try to find your identity.)
In British English, a bing is a dent or scrape, usually on a car or other motor vehicle.
Citation please. I have never come across "bing" except Bing Crosby's first name.
"Wrench" is the British term for an adjustable spanner.
I disagree. An adjustable spanner is called an "adjustable spanner" where I come from. I only ever heard the term "wrench" on tv/movies.
I also think that the article summary should say ...
(the correct term for a wrench)
. :-)
I have a Hanns G HZ 281 - 28" 1920x1200 and less than 250 GBP (400 USD). So bright I have to wear sunblock.
Sure, I can explain it.
C#/Java, import runtime library (dll or jar) of rich libraries, write new classes (using nice readable names), usually one file per class (but in c# I can combine them into 1 file), compile run.
c++, include header files, write new classes (using hideously complicated naming and syntax), write duplicate definition in own header files, add libraries (already included) to linking process, compile, run.
One way is smooth and logical, the other is barbaric, and a top priority of the standards committee to get rid of, just hasn't happened yet. If its so ok, why have they said it's got to go?
It's not clear to me, still. Please give concrete examples, from your point of view, showing the difference between the two? And please avoid emotive terms like "barbaric" That's adding nothing.
Nothing needs to be complicated about naming in C++, in fact it's easier than system.io.println, IMO. I am free to give my class and methods meaningful name - what's your point here? Better than giving everything a com.myco (well, actually we were taken over, so _myoldco_ - we don't want to break anything).system.subsytem prefix.
In Java *or* in C++, if you change a class interface, the dependencies need to be rebuilt. Most Java IDEs will do that on-the-fly, and you might have to invoke another tool (E.g. make) to build, especially if you are doing multi-platform development. But the building happens no matter what. If your C++ build tool does too much work when you make a change, then that effort can probably be avoided.
Please don't mix up Windows DLLS with shared objects in other systems, mentioning them is nothing to do with C++ per se.
Yeah, I know C++11, I've looked at it quite a bit, and it is better than it was, but as long as it needs header files, I don't put it into a modern language category.
This is the most bizarre statement I've seen here today. Can you explain your reasoning?
Yes, was. In the olden days your RF receiver pumped out loads of modulated RF dependent on input frequencies so it was distinctly possible. Now with EU regulations governing emissions on all electronics you'd be lucky to even detect if it was switched on from more than a couple of metres away. Your ring main kicks out more than a LCD TV.
I disagree with this, I just bought a new LCD TV (and a UK TV Licence too!) and the TV sends out enough RF to interfere with my DAB radio in the same room. (I know, *now*, that DAB is cr*p and would never suggest anyone buy a DAB radio after experiencing it myself, but there is undoubtedly RF.). My laptop (old, but still with FCC and CE marks on the underside) is even worse in terms of interference to DAB. And I do suspect that Tempest technology could read what's on my screen, were "they" on the other side of the wall.
However, I doubt that there are detector vans still operating. Given the multitude of RF sources these days, it would be almost impossible to say "You're watching BBC1 on a TV in the back bedroom." Perhaps it could be used as a "foot in the door" tactic.
However grammar is an indication of performance (not the only one) - see I Won't Hire People Who Use Poor Grammar. Here's Why. for a view on this. (Unfortunate URL truncation there).
No, (s)he pointed out that many people had the same experience as portrayed in the comedy.
So the comedy was an illustration or not? You say I got it wrong, but the bottom line is that you agree with me...
I never said he used the Comedy to deduce of imply anything, just as an illustration.
Err, yes, you got it wrong, IMO. I think that the reference to the comedy was not stupid. I don't think you can deduce from what I say whether I agree with you or not on the bigger issue, but you were wrong to say slim is "stupid" for making the post.
So you use a British Comedy to illustrate the fact that French are racists?
You may not be racist, but you are stupid for sure.
No, (s)he pointed out that many people had the same experience as portrayed in the comedy.
Pay attention, Bond!
3rd part software and not free
Well, maybe MyCo buys this, but AFAIK this is part of a modern Windows infrastructure and all provided by MS. Works seamlessly on XP, so it's not bleeding edge tech. If it's reachable by network, then XP in a domain environment offers an offline ability. I'm not saying the merge is painless, but at least conflicts are flagged, which is more than the current situation the OP suffers.
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and what about the offline part?
What about the "offline access" available?
The real problem is that human life in China is not valued.
This is true, the company I am working with were looking at data centers in mainland China, and asking about the fire supression system, in particular how long people had to get out once the alarm goes off. The answer was "In the Western world, you value human life over data, here we value data over human life."
Well, it's often been said that Emacs is a pretty good operating system, lacking only a decent editor...
Go to somewhere like Luxembourg, or the areas of France and Belgium near there, where they totally love the US army for what they did. They name streets after famous Americans, there are memorials to the armed forces in many towns and villages. The perception there is that the US liberated them. Visiting veterans from the US are treated with real respect by the locals when they come over to visit (which happens frequently).
I'm not saying I have an opinion either way, because I haven't studied the history, but I have to tell it like it is. I've seen it with my own eyes.
Surely a derivative work, rather than being a remix, will be a reheat?
I'll get my coat...
Another vote for Iain M. Banks, and, in fact for some of his straight work as plain Iain Banks. The Wasp Factory, for example, will leave you feeling very uncomfortable.
The Culture series is very good, it's the source of one of my favourite quotes: "Money implies poverty." And there's a Wikipedia page on it!
I agree, I dug them out of the attic last month and will re-read. Partly for the sheer joy of them, they were at one point my favourite books, and partly to see what age they're suitable for - sex, bad language, etc.
But read them in the order they were written, i.e. the Saga of Pliocene Exile first.
these are books so difficult (and leaden) most people never finish them. they aren't written for children at all. the deeper philosophy and psychology is something no 12 year old could appreciate, and also the references to Wagner and Conrad are completely beyond a child.
I read this in secondary school, so I'd have been about 15 at the time. There were a bunch of us who all read them all, and we had no problems with the language. Not sure we got the philosophy you hint at, but I'm not going back to read them again, they didn't make that much impact upon me. I do remember that the middle book of the second chronicles was pretty pointless - they sail away, then come back, not much happens in terms of the big picture.
Also, I'd like to put in a good word for James Tiptree, Jr. (real name: Alice Sheldon, nee Bradley).
And I second that. Her collection of short stories, 10,000 Light Years from Home, is one of the few books I'd keep if I had to downsize my collection. Great variety of ideas in that one volume.
With all of this talk about bitcoins, which are based on cryptography, why aren't there more Slashdotters asking why in the hell those bitcoins weren't stored in an encrypted format?
It doesn't matter who hosts your VPS if you apply some common sense to your valuable data.
Well, it comes down to this. These people were renting a slice of server to mine bitcoins. That meant that any coins that were created had to be put somewhere. And, that somewhere had to be online at the time the coins were discovered. It would be seriously inconvenient if the mining process paused because it had a block of coins, but couldn't store them - at risk from power failure, for example. Imagine getting an SMS at 03:34 asking you to log on to make the wallet available- and realising you'd missed the first SMS, and your process had lost eight hours of processing time. Or realising that the server had had a power outage, and the coins were lost forever because they weren't stored before the power went down.
So, as reported, most people had a short-term "wallet" that was online, and they withdrew mined coins periodically. Some of the questions in the forums have been around why such large balances built up. I guess complacency and lack of rigour. But if your process needs access to an encrypted file, you either give it the key to (1) decrypt it ([i]hard-coded key in source, [ii]passed in key on command-line, or [iii] pass in key via environment), or (2) you leave the file online. Personally, I'd probably go for 1.i, but not leave the source on the mining machine, as 1.ii and 1.iii are vulnerable if the mining machine is compromised. But (2), if you trust yourself to empty the live file regularly, does seem nice and easy.